About
Robin Andersson Malmros

The uncertainty of how to act, the growth of violent extremist groups and the responsibility put upon the municipalities, has fueled and intensified an ever surrounding, heated, intense and polarized medial and political debate about work to prevent violent extremism (PVE) in the Scandinavian countries. My compilation thesis consists of four papers that combined contribute to this debate by describing and analyzing, through an organizational institutionalism lens, how Scandinavian municipalities organize to prevent radicalization to extremism. More specifically, I aim to describe the emergence of the organizational field, how municipalities translate the idea of radicalization into policy, what actions that are to be undertaken in municipal PVE-work and what institutional logics that guides such work.

The research project focuses Nordic multiagency approaches to handling extremism. More specifically, the policies and laws that underpin such work, perceptions among practitioners and the practices conducted in multiagency structures

Further commitments

Project Leader at The Segerstedt Institute - a national resource center with the objective to
spread knowledge and develop methods on how to prevent recruitment to violent extremist movements
and ideologies.

Expert Consultant in the International Consensus Guidelines Committee for the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Extremist Violence. CPN-PREV is an evidence-based and practitioner-centered network aiming at promoting Canadian and international leadership from multiple sectors and disciplines in countering violent
radicalization (https://cpnprev.ca).